Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demand for "macaroni pastitsio." In a nervous swivet, Ben and Gus pile on their own stale snacks. But the machine is insatiable, asking for "one Char Siu and bean-sprouts." The men shout through a decrepit speaking tube that they have no more. Gus leaves for a drink of water, and the speaking tube instructs Ben to shoot the next man who enters the room...
...problem, say, is an aunt. She is 74 years old, does not drink or smoke, hates perfume, and gets all her clothes, apparently, at an upholstery shop on Third Avenue. What to give her for Christmas? Black despair, then inspiration: she likes to read, and her taste would be exactly suited by Morte d'Urban, J. F. Powers' witty novel of a worldly priest. The gift giver visits a bookstore and returns well satisfied...
Jewett said that most freshmen completed the last statement by indicating concern about the degree to which a desirable roommate would smoke, drink, or insist upon neatness. These preferences, as well as the more general ones expressed in response to the first three questionnaire items, were followed as closely as possible in selecting roommates...
Unfortunately, the most traditional part of the football weekend--the post-game coktail party--cannot really be scheduled. One just has to crash it, pretending to be in search of a long-lost buddy from the Other Place, pleading the need for a brotherly drink, or just demanding the return of a purloined date...
Mutiny on the Bounty. It was just a drop in the bucket to begin with. On the morning of April 28, 1789, goes one version of the story. Captain William Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty refused to give a drink of water to a dying man and his crew staged a mutiny. The incident inspired a trilogy of bestselling novels (1932-34) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, and a supercolossal saga of the sea (1935) starring Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh. In 1959, figuring that the public was ready to stretch...